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Arun Jain, CEO Polaris had no powerpoint presentations as he rose to deliver his speech on 'The future of entreprenuership'. An ideal topic for a man who has been an entrepreneur twice over. Jain started off by drawing from his experience at Polaris with Lakshya an exercise where everyone in the company was asked to predict the future of Polaris after 5 years. Polaris kept doing this exercise for five years but never measured it. Nobody opened the documents but at the end of five years they found that almost 80 per cent of what had been envisaged had been realised.

NEW DELHI: India has taken a leap into gaming software development, running the race from start to finish. The New Year release of the third edition of the hot favourite among online casual games, Tradewinds: Legends, is set to make waves, not only among gamers but also in the global game-development community. A little-known Indian company, Lakshya Digital, has been involved right from the conceptual stage in the making of the sequel to Tradewinds and Tradewinds 2, with the US-based developer and publisher of casual entertainment, Sandlot Games Corporation.

BALASORE: India has successfully test-flighted its Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA) 'Lakshya' with an improved engine and other sub-systems developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation to make it a more effective war machine. The indigenously developed Lakshya was test flown from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, about 14 km from here, at 1355 hours, according to defence sources. Already inducted into the Indian Air Force in 2000, Lakshya's latest trial was undertaken with an improved engine and other sub-systems developed by DRDO.

The slender 16-year old Ankita Raina wants to hit Centre Court at Wimbledon while lanky 14-year old Rutuja Bhosale wants to definitely get on to the international tennis circuit. Both have won national tournaments with being Ankita part of the Asian team that will play in Europe. There is also 11-year old Sahil Deshmukh, who still cannot articulate fully what he wants but has got stars in his eyes. Add to this motley group a boxer, Salman Shaikh, who needed Rs 5,000 a month for two square meals a day, additional proteins and some milk.

NEW DELHI: Education solutions firm Educomp Solutions on Tuesday said it has formed a joint venture with US-based Zeebo and Lakshya Digital to sell devices with educational content in India. "Zeebo India, the joint venture firm, will work towards tailoring Zeebo's technology and developing content for school children in India ," Educomp Solutions CEO Shantanu Prakash told reporters here. The partners will make an initial investment of $4 million towards the JV firm, he added.

JERUSALEM: Israel is backtracking on its commitment made to India over "reciprocal procurement" of defence-related items, wavering over the purchase of pilotless target aircraft (PTA), 'Lakshya', and advanced light helicopter (ALH), 'Dhruv'. "The Indian UAV (Lakshya) was one of the many options that were examined some months ago. The final evaluation of the various aspects of each proposal included technical and cost parameters. Budget constraints dictated a choice of the American UAV," Rachek Niedek Ashkenazi, spokesperson of the Israeli defence ministry, said.

Not kid stuff It's taken a small start-up to make an Indian splash in the huge and growing gaming segment of the information technology industry, even as our tech biggies continue to turn their collective back on it. Gurgaon-based Lakshya Digital has done a full game, albeit a casual one, which are not as complex as the 'massively multiplayer online role playing games' (one of these is played by five million people). True, some Indian companies have started outsourcing parts of the range of activities that go into the making of a game: design, graphic design, other artwork, music, sound design, programming, other technical work and production.

MUMBAI: Whether in rescue mode, simply sheltering from the rains or working on disaster management plans for the future, the business schools that dot India's financial capital are proving that strategy isn't just for the books. On a day when torrential rains swept the city off its feet, MBA students at the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management (NMIMS) unpacked their lessons and went to the aid of buses full of stranded students. "As soon as the water levels started rising classes were cancelled.

After a bumper opening over the weekend, Lakshya seems to be going the Dil Chahta Hai way . Faring better at multiplexes and major metros across the country, the Rs 32-crore Boyz-to-Men war movie has had a mixed run at the box office, with ticket sales dropping in smaller towns and cities. Weekend collections from major overseas markets ? United States and United Kingdom - have not been spectacular, but are expected to remain steady with a positive word of mouth.

BALASORE (ODISHA): Indigenously developed micro-light and pilot-less target aircraft 'Lakshya-1' was successfully test flown from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur near here today. 'Lakshya-1', fitted with an advanced digitally controlled engine was successfully test flown at about 11.40 AM to check the validity of its engine and duration enhancement, defence sources said here. "It is a routine trial by the users," the sources said. 'Lakshya' is a sub-sonic, re-usable aerial target system remote controlled from the ground and designed to impart training to both air borne and air defence pilots.